Fast CompanySouthwest Airlines' hub in Dallas exists in a world of constant hecticness. Love Field, one of the city's two main airports, is as close to a private Southwest airport as you're likely to find. On any given day, Southwest operates 180 flights out of the airport; apart from a few Virgin America and Delta flights, Love Field is Southwest's home turf. Southwest's corporate headquarters is even located there.
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InformationWeekSome organizations have mastered data governance, but they are in the minority. As data volumes continue to grow, most businesses are finding it hard to keep up.
Poor data governance can result in lawsuits, regulatory fines, security breaches and other data-related risks that can be expensive and damaging to a company's reputation. READ MORE

InformationWeekCyber insurance is a growing field putting business and security leaders to the test as they navigate the often tricky process of researching and purchasing policies. Technology is quickly changing, and so is risk.
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The GuardianApproximately half of adult Americans' photographs are stored in facial recognition databases that can be accessed by the FBI, without their knowledge or consent, in the hunt for suspected criminals. About 80 percent of photos in the FBI's network are non-criminal entries, including pictures from driver's licenses and passports. The algorithms used to identify matches are inaccurate about 15 percent of the time, and are more likely to misidentify black people than white people.
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The New YorkerWhen my mother's mother was in her early twenties, a century ago, a suitor took her duck hunting in a rowboat on a lake near Austin, Texas, where she grew up. He steadied his shotgun by resting the barrel on her right shoulder — she was sitting in the bow — and when he fired he not only missed the duck but also permanently damaged her hearing, especially on that side.
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FuturityA new set of liquid-handling robots — made from the Lego Mindstorms robotics kit and a cheap, easy-to-find syringe — can transfer precise amounts of fluids among flasks, test tubes and experimental dishes.
The robot approaches the performance of automation systems found at university at biotech labs.READ MORE

The Dallas Morning NewsA team of researchers from the University of Texas at Dallas went looking for new nanotechnologies for future, tiny, energy-efficient transistors, but accidentally found a pattern that looks like a Warhol-esque American flag. The team has been studying whether various materials work as tiny conductors on an atomic level.
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CIOEach year, the Information Security Forum, a nonprofit association that researches and analyzes security and risk management issues, releases its "Threat Horizon" report to provide a forward-looking view of the biggest security threats over a two-year period. Here are the top nine threats to watch for through 2019.
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MIT News OfficeHow would you learn geometry without seeing the shapes? How would you calculate Pythagoras’ lengths without seeing the measurements? MIT graduate students Pranay Jain and Anshul Singhal asked these questions, seeking to address the fact that most blind students drop out of math and science after 8th grade because content becomes unavailable and the laboratory becomes inaccessible.
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